Older men who cheat more likely to die during sex

Those better be for your wife, if you know what’s good for you. (Fotolia.com)

If you’re an older married man cheating on his wife with a younger woman, your chances of dying of a heart attack during sex are increased, according to a new book.

It’s quoting an autopsy study of 5,559 people who died suddenly from heart arrhythmias, which states a mere 0.6% of them were having sex when they died. But the interesting part is this, as reported by WebMD.com:

Most of these cases occurred in men, and three out of four of these deaths involved extramarital sex, most often with a younger partner in an unfamiliar setting.

“One could speculate that higher anxiety or higher adrenaline might have been involved in these deaths, but because the numbers were so small I wouldn’t want to read too much into this,” (Glenn N. Levine, MD, director of the Cardiac Care Unit at the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center) says.

“There is a misperception that many patients with heart disease should not have sexual relations,” he says. “This is in part due to the rare, sensationalized cases of politicians and other celebrities dying during sex.”

Levine, also a researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine, tells the AHA that cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or chest pain caused by heart disease, rarely occur during sexual activity because it’s usually for just a short time.

“Some patients will postpone sexual activity when it is actually relatively safe for them to engage in it,” said Levine … “On the other hand, there are some patients for whom it may be reasonable to defer sexual activity until they’re assessed and stabilized.”